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Our Grantees

Advancing Health Online’s Vaccine Confidence Fund II
Harnessing the power of social media to increase vaccination confidence and uptake

11 grantees selected (more details below)

$4.8M distributed for research across five continents and 10 countries

FUND MANAGER CONTACT INFORMATION
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AHA! Behavioral Consultancy

  • Addressing MMR Pediatric Vaccine Hesitancy Among Filipino Caregivers through Behavioral Design Solutions
  • Country of Focus: Philippines

Behavioral Insights Team (BIT)

  • Why do chatbots work? A randomized controlled trial to test the effect of behaviorally-informed chatbot functionalities on vaccine uptake
  • Country of Focus: Argentina

Busara Center for Behavioral Economics

  • Debunking HPV Vaccine Misinformation in the Global South – An experimental behavioral approach
  • Country of Focus: Kenya

Christian Aid

  • Using social media to promote increased COVID-19 vaccine confidence in conflict-affected societies: A casual impact study among internally displaced people and host communities in Kayin State, Myanmar
  • Country of Focus: Myanmar

Grameen Foundation

  • Vaccine Adoption and Confidence through Communications, Social Media Innovations and Experimentation
  • Country of Focus: India

Johns Hopkins University – Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHU – BSPH)

  • Nudging vaccination adherence through Chatbots and Interactive Voice Response Systems (IVRS): A quasi-experiment in slum areas in India
  • Country of Focus: India

Johns Hopkins University – Institute for Vaccine Safety (JHU – IVS)

  • Evaluating Social Media as a Tool for Connecting Vulnerable Communities with a Personalized Vaccination Decision-Making Website
  • Country of Focus: United States of America

Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) & Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT)

  • Personalising social media strategies to address vaccine-ambivalence in complementary medicine users with chronic conditions
  • Country of Focus: Germany & Argentina

Stanford University – Center for Health Education

  • Empowering community health workers as vaccine educators: Assessing the impact of a digital health training and social media chatbot intervention on vaccination rates in Kenya
  • Country of Focus: Kenya

University of California, San Francisco – Institute for Global Health Sciences (UCSF)

  • Culturally and linguistically appropriate vaccine education (CLAVE): an evaluation of social media vaccine communication messages in rural Guatemala
  • Country of Focus: Guatemala

Wits VIDA Research Unit

  • Community influence and social media: motivating vaccination in marginalised youth in Soweto
  • Country of Focus: South Africa